Nov 2009 From Luxor our ship sailed to Aswan. In Aswan itself there are a gems of a temple called ...

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The new Boeing 787 ...

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw ...

Freiburg was founded by the Dukes of Zähringen in 1120. After the House of Zähringen built a castle on Schloßberg ...

When we were planning our itinerary we tried as far as possible to be near Mother Nature. Since our final ...

Though purists feel that Neuschwanstein or the New Swan Castle is not a true castle please do make every effort ...

From the time one enters Freiburg it seems we have fallen into the pages of a story book. the Grimm ...

An early start took us to Bonn. This was one city I didn't research because I was very sure references ...

A trip to Trier in Germany. An ancient city with majestic architecture. Birthplace of Karl Marx.

In 1838 the French novelist Victor Hugo wrote "The Rhine combines everything. The Rhine is swift as the Rhône, wide ...

On 14th Sept, Saif and I came to Dusseldorf to meet and join my husband for the rest of the ...

On Jan. 16, 1945 Hitler went in almost unnoticed into his underground shelter. Berlin was burning and while the ordinary ...

Neue Wache We left the Museum Island and walked on to Unter den Linden Street. There is no missing a ...

In Berlin, some 40,000 people gathered in the Opernplatz / now Bebelplatz to hear Joseph Goebbels deliver a fiery address: ...

Nothing in Berlin fascinated me as much as the Berlin Wall.Having grown up on a lot of espionage movies and ...

The next day started with a journey on the underground to Alexanderplatz station. Another tip I would like to give ...

I left Dubai on 8th Sept for Germany,a. week before my husband so that I could spend a week with ...